Real Stories from the Front Lines: Research with Impact Sponsored by the Neglected Global Diseases Initiative (NGDI), UBC

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• Richard Lester, Medicine, UBC, and Director, Neglected Global Diseases Initiative; Jason Nickerson, Law, University of Ottawa, and Humanitarian Representative, Doctors without Borders
  Online via Zoom
  Tuesday, January 28, 5-6:30 pm

  in the series
  Stories from the Front Line: Universities and Global Citizenship
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• Neglected Global Diseases (NGDs) are infectious diseases and other conditions that cause physical and cognitive impairments, contribute to mother and child illness and death, and make it difficult to earn a living, thereby disproportionately affecting the world’s poorest populations. This webinar will highlight how Canadian drug development can transform medical care for neglected diseases in humanitarian crises, by Dr. Jason Nickerson, Humanitarian Representative to Canada for Doctors Without Borders and in Rwanda by NGDI-UBC Co-Director and Associate Professor of Medicine Dr. Richard Lester. Each of these presentations will highlight the importance of working with partners in the countries where these diseases arise and to track and monitor the progress being done to address these diseases .

  Please note that this event is scheduled to be online only.

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  Dr. Richard Lester’s work focuses on researching digital health and virtual care for patient care in local and global health environments, focusing on mobile phone use (mHealth), equity, and access.
  
  His mission is to ensure the scale-up of evidence-based digital health services and use rigorous, innovative data science approaches such as natural language processing (NLP) and other forms of AI for continuous quality improvement and to inform guidelines.
  
   

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  Dr. Jason Nickerson is the Humanitarian Representative to Canada for Doctors Without Borders / Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF), a position that he has held following years of experience working in health and humanitarian agencies to develop, deliver, and influence health policy and programming globally and in Canada.
  
  With experience in health service delivery as a respiratory therapist in critical care and anesthesia in four Canadian provinces and public health programming, policy development, and advocacy in multiple countries, Jason Nickerson brings a frontline perspective to developing and delivering high-level public health policy and operations. Throughout his career, he has built strategic engagement with senior decision-makers and worked with leading public health experts to develop innovative health programming that addresses needs in humanitarian emergencies and for complex public health challenges such as health system strengthening and reform, drug policy, access to medicines, and addressing the health needs of older adults, particularly in long-term and complex continuing care.
   

  
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